TY  - BOOK
AU  - Redford,Donald B.
TI  - City of the Ram-Man: The Story of Ancient Mendes 
SN  - 9781400834556
AV  - DT73.M54 
U1  - 932 22
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Excavations (Archaeology)
KW  - Egypt
KW  - Mendes (Extinct city)
KW  - Mythology, Egyptian
KW  - Rams
KW  - Symbolic aspects
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Akhenaten
KW  - Amanuensis
KW  - Ambonese
KW  - Amenemhet III
KW  - Amenhotep III
KW  - Amun
KW  - Anau
KW  - Annexation
KW  - Arameans
KW  - Archetype
KW  - Ashdod
KW  - Assyria
KW  - Athribis
KW  - Avaris
KW  - Babylonia
KW  - Brickwork
KW  - Bubastite Portal
KW  - Cambyses II
KW  - Cement
KW  - Central Asia
KW  - City Of
KW  - City proper
KW  - Cubicle
KW  - Dahshur
KW  - Darius II
KW  - Detritus
KW  - Dialect
KW  - Djed
KW  - Egyptians
KW  - Embellishment
KW  - Entryway
KW  - Epithet
KW  - Fortified tower
KW  - Granary
KW  - Hermopolis
KW  - Hittites
KW  - Incarnation
KW  - Intimidation
KW  - Invention
KW  - Jordan Valley (Middle East)
KW  - Kadesh (Israel)
KW  - Khonsu
KW  - King of Egypt
KW  - King of the Gods
KW  - Kingdom of Kush
KW  - Land of Goshen
KW  - Majordomo
KW  - Mammisi
KW  - Masonry
KW  - Mastaba
KW  - Medinet Habu (location)
KW  - Mendes
KW  - Middle Kingdom of Egypt
KW  - Military art
KW  - Mortuary cult
KW  - Nebuchadnezzar II
KW  - Necho I
KW  - Necho II
KW  - Neo-Babylonian Empire
KW  - New Kingdom of Egypt
KW  - Nile Delta
KW  - Nile
KW  - Nitocris
KW  - Old Kingdom of Egypt
KW  - Omnipotence
KW  - Osiris myth
KW  - Pelusium
KW  - Philistia
KW  - Philistines
KW  - Pilaster
KW  - Pithom
KW  - Plaster
KW  - Pottery
KW  - Proskynesis
KW  - Ptolemy I Soter
KW  - Ptolemy II Philadelphus
KW  - Pyramid Texts
KW  - Ramesses I
KW  - Ramesses II
KW  - Ramesses III
KW  - Ramesses VI
KW  - Redaction
KW  - Regnal year
KW  - Sargon II
KW  - Sekhmet
KW  - Shabaka
KW  - Shasu
KW  - Smendes
KW  - Smuggling
KW  - Sudan
KW  - Taharqa
KW  - Three Cities
KW  - Thutmose III
KW  - Tiglath-Pileser III
KW  - Tomb
KW  - Trading post
KW  - Transhumance
KW  - Uruk
KW  - Vandalism
KW  - Vizier
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Sidebars --; Preface --; Introduction --; Abbreviations --; Chapter One The Beginnings --; Chapter Two The Advent of Horus --; Chapter Three In the Time of the Residence --; Chapter Four The Collapse --; Chapter Five The Mysterious Centuries: The Middle Kingdom --; Chapter Six Mendes under the Empire Pharaohs --; Chapter Seven The Great Chiefs of the Meshwesh --; Chapter Eight Egypt in the Time of Troubles --; Chapter Nine The Ram, Lord of Djedet --; Chapter Ten The Saite Revival --; Chapter Eleven Mendes, the Capital of Egypt --; Chapter Twelve The Great Disaster --; Chapter Thirteen Dusk and Darkness: The End of Mendes --; Notes to Chapters and Further Readings --; Index; restricted access
N2  - A richly illustrated history that sheds light on ancient Egypt across the millenniaIn this richly illustrated book, renowned archaeologist Donald Redford draws on the latest discoveries—including many of his own—to tell the story of the ancient Egyptian city of Mendes, home of the mysterious cult of the "fornicating ram who mounts the beauties." Excavation by Redford and his colleagues over the past two decades has cast a flood of light on this strange center of worship and political power located in the Nile Delta. A sweeping chronological account filled with photographs, drawings, and informative sidebars, City of the Ram-Man is the first history of Mendes written for general readers.Founded in the remote prehistoric past, inhabited continuously for 5,000 years, and abandoned only in the first-century BC, Mendes is a microcosm of ancient Egyptian history. City of the Ram-Man tells the city's full story—from its founding, through its development of a great society and its brief period as the capital of Egypt, up to its final decline. Central to the story is millennia of worship dedicated to the lascivious ram-god. The book describes the discoveries of the great temple of the ram and the "Mansion of the Rams," where the embalmed bodies of the avatars of the god were buried. It also discusses ancient Greek reports that these ram-gods occasionally ritually fornicated with women.Vividly written and informed throughout by Redford's intimate knowledge of the remains of Mendes, City of the Ram-Man is a unique account of a long-lost monument of Egyptian history, religion, and culture
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400834556?locatt=mode:legacy
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